The Best American History Essays 2006
The Best American History Essays 2006 Edited by Joyce Appleby for the Organization of American Historians palgrave macmillan
* THE BEST AMERICAN HISTORY ESSAYS 2006 Edited by Joyce Appleby for the Organization of American Historians, 2006. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 2006 978-1-4039-6840-1 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLANTM 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-4039-6852-4 ISBN 978-1-137-06580-3 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-06580-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The best American history essays of 2006 / edited by Joyce Appleby for the Organization of American Historians. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4039-6840-1 (alk. paper) 1. United States-History. 2. American essays. 3. United States Historiography. I. Organization of American Historians. E178.6.0152006 973-dc22 Acatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: April 2006 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2005054649 Transferred To Digital Printing 2011
Contents List of Illustrations Vll Introduction 1 Joyce Appleby Chapter 1 Inventing the Presidency 11 Joseph Ellis From American Heritage Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 "Divide et Impera": Federalist 1 0 in a Wider Sphere 27 Woody Holton From The William and Mary Quarterly "Overrun with Free Negroes": Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest 61 Leslie A. Schwalm From Civil War History The Work Ethic of the Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South 89 Carl R. Osthaus From The Journal of Southern History " 'It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped': Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle" 123 Danielle L. McGuire From The Journal of American History Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary 151 Eric Avila From The Journal of Urban History Sing Sheng vs. Southwood: Residential Integration in Cold War California 173 Charlotte Brooks From The Pacific Historical Review
VI Contents Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Murder and Biblical Memory: The Legend of Vernon Johns Ralph E. Luker From The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945-1969 Thomas J. Sugrue From The Journal of American History Chapter 10 The Suburban Origins of "Color-Blind" Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis Matthew D. Lassiter From The Journal of Urban History Other Articles Nominated for the 2006 Competition Index 201 231 263 295 297
List of Illustrations 1.1 L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, DC 22 2.1 Herman Husband compares a state to a human hand. A Dialogue between an Assembly-Man and a Convention-Man, on the Subject of the State Constitution of Pennsylvania... (Philadelphia, 1790) 32 2.2 Herman Husband, A Dialogue between an Assembly-Man and a Convention-Man, on the Subject of the State Constitution of Pennsylvania... (Philadelphia, 1790), between pages 8 and 9. Herman Husband used a map of North America and a diagram of a human body to demonstrate his belief that the various layers of representative government in the United States should exhibit the same proportionality as the human body 33 6.1 Visiting Model Homes in Lakewood, ca. 1951 162 8.1 Vernon Johns, ca. 1959 202 10.1 Charlotte Map 1970: Distribution of the Black Population of the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg Country, 1970, by Census Tract 268 10.2 Charlotte Map 2000: Distribution of the Black Population of the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg Country, 2000, by Census Tract 287